Lyft Goes All-In on AWS

3 months ago

Lyft uses the breadth of functionality and highly reliable
infrastructure of AWS to enhance rider experience and accelerate
self-driving technologies in the cloud

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), announced that Lyft, Inc. is going all-in on the world’s leading
cloud—to enhance Lyft’s ridesharing marketplace which is available to an
estimated 95 percent of the U.S. population, as well as in select
Canadian cities, drive growth of its bike and scooters businesses, and
enable its self-driving technology. Since its inception, Lyft has
leveraged AWS’s unmatched performance and scalability to power its
on-demand transportation platform, which facilitates more than 50
million rides a month. Lyft runs its operations, which provides a
multimodal platform for drivers and riders in the U.S. and Canada, as
well as backend platform systems, financial applications, and website on
AWS. The company is leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS’s services,
including database, serverless, machine learning, and analytics, to
automate and enhance on-demand, multimodal transportation for riders and
drive innovation in its autonomous vehicles business.

Running on AWS’s fault-tolerant, highly performant infrastructure, helps
support Lyft’s everyday business, and scales easily for peak periods,
where demand can skyrocket on weekends and holidays. In addition, Lyft
relies on Amazon DynamoDB, a database that delivers high performance at
scale, to support its mission-critical workloads, including a
ride-tracking system that enables the company to provide more precise
vehicle routing. By leveraging Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Container
Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) and AWS Lambda, Lyft migrated
to a microservices architecture to create more than 150 microservices
that independently scale workloads while reducing complexity in the
cloud to enhance every element of the rider experience. Lyft also has a
data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and leverages
Amazon Redshift to analyze the vast amount of data it is storing in the
cloud, delivering insights that uncover riding patterns and predict
pick-up and drop-off locations. This technology supported the
introduction of the company’s Shared ride service, Lyft Line. Lyft is
looking to leverage machine learning services such as Amazon SageMaker
to help provide fare estimates, enable fraud detection, and optimize
pick-up and drop-off spots, to achieve its goal of building a
cost-effective and reliable self-driving system for ridesharing.

“We built our business on AWS from the very beginning, taking advantage
of their extensive compute power, depth and breadth of services, and
expertise to develop an effective cloud infrastructure to support our
growing business and goal of improving people’s lives with
transportation,” said Chris Lambert, Chief Technology Officer at Lyft.
“By operating on AWS, we are able to scale and innovate quickly to
provide new features and improvements to our services and deliver
exceptional transportation experiences to our growing community of Lyft
riders. With AWS, we don’t have to focus on the undifferentiated heavy
lifting of managing our infrastructure, and can concentrate instead on
developing and improving services with the goal of providing the best
transportation experiences for riders and drivers, and take advantage of
the opportunity for Lyft to develop best-in-class self-driving
technology.”

“The rise of ridesharing companies like Lyft has been transformational –
changing the transportation model from one that revolved around cities
to a new personalized, convenient, on-demand experience. With AWS, Lyft
is poised to lead the next major transformation in autonomous motor
vehicle technology, by leveraging our industry-leading portfolio of
cloud services, proven operational expertise, and unmatched
reliability,” said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial
Sales at AWS. “By choosing to go all-in on AWS, Lyft is able to
innovate, get-to-market quickly, scale, and expand globally, as they
invent new ways to make transportation safer and more enjoyable for
riders.”

About Amazon Web Services

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About Lyft

Lyft was founded in 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer to improve
people’s lives with the world’s best transportation, and is available to
95 percent of the United States population as well as select cities in
Canada. Lyft is committed to effecting positive change for our cities by
offsetting carbon emissions from all rides, and by promoting
transportation equity through shared rides, bikeshare systems, electric
scooters, and public transit partnerships.